Church's Crusade #17: A Knight in Cobalt Armour
Church and the rest of the people at blue base stood looking at the bike. How much they have changed thought Church, looking at his squad. Paul had managed to get them all kitted out in altered freelancer armour. Rourke was wearing a full suit of green armour, Paul was wearing the original white with a few patches of black and Anna was wearing a suit of armour that matched the brown of her old uniform. All in all, coupled with the colours of blue team and the purple armour worn by Doc, Church thought it was the second oddest sight he had ever seen, shortly behind some of the things he had seen in Caboose's head. Finally he turned his attention to the hover bike.
"…I just want to know if it can talk like Sheila did,' said Caboose, 'Then I can be friends with the big bike lady! Or man!"
"No Caboose, it doesn't talk,' said Paul, 'I didn't really have time to make an AI and frankly I don't see the point. Church can handle this thing okay on his own."
Church looked at all the faces, "Well then I guess I'd better test it out…"
Sergeant Walters was leading an eight man squad on patrol, when he heard a low humming approaching. He looked out over the rolling plains that filled the canyon and caught sight of something approaching. He lifted his binoculars and scanned the area until he located it again. What he saw completely confused him. It looked like someone was riding towards them on a large motorbike without wheels and with a couple of miniature jet engines tacked on the sides. One thing was certain. It was heading straight for him and his men. He lowered the binoculars and gestured for the men travelling beside his jeep on dirt-bikes to ready weapons, before taking up the gunner position on the back of the car. He watched as one of his men rode forward to meet the oncoming vehicle…
Church watched the man approaching him, gun held at the ready. He looked down at the controls to the hover bike. Well he was here to test it. He flicked a switch and felt the gattling-guns whir into life…
Walters watched in horror as the vehicles guns fired, picking the man off his bike and destroying the fuel tank in the process. Into the explosion that followed he saw the man vanish. He was almost ready to relax when the hover-bike came out the other side. Walters began to fire and a few moments later, so did his men. The man took out a second soldier with the gattling-guns then, to the sergeants surprise, drew a jagged looking sabre from his back. Walters was just considering the stupidity of this when the edge of the blade suddenly took on a cobalt blue glow. As he began to shout a warning he saw the man raise the sabre and bring it down on a soldier on one of the bikes. The blade cut clean through him. The sergeant tried to warn his mean as the man circled in for another pass…
Church swung the bike around and brought it up beside one of the remaining bikers. There he swung himself out of his seat and brought both feet around and into the soldier's neck. The man's neck snapped and he toppled off the bike, which Church caught under the handle bars with his feet before it could lose control. Then, using the increased strength of his robotic body, he swung the bike about and sent it hurtling into the other biker trooper. He then swung about towards the jeep – and into a hail of gunfire from the passenger seat. He looked at the determined soldier with the battle rifle and held up the sabre. Green button Paul had said. Point and press. Church did so and saw a burning bolt of blasma shoot out to hit the man squarely in the eyes. After a seconds surprise he began to ride headlong at the oncoming vehicle…
Walters kept firing, trying to kill the driver of the bike, but nothing seemed to work. All too soon he saw the sabre slash through the hood of the jeep before removing the driver's head. As the blade burned through him, Walters looked into the helmet, at the grinning skull shown therein, before the darkness of death swept over him…
About two hours after he had left, Church pulled back into blue base, battered and with the occasional bullet holes, but basically unharmed. He stepped off the bike and walked over to the others. He took a deep, though totally unnecessary breath before speaking, "Well, I think we can safely say that it works…"
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